Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-10-08
NORTH CAROLINA.
TIE LAW TAEEs HOLD OF aEGRo Is
TIMIDATORs.
Six Found uilty-organization Of New
Tobacco. Warehouse Company
Dwelling Burned.
Especial lolorrsm to Tue DlsDa0a ]

ton has been made of the fact that ne
grocs were intmidating laborers OF
their race in certain counties IN the
eastern part of the State and threaten
ing them with death if they persisted
in picking cotton at forty cents per
| hundred POM s. Matters have been
tlus conducted in high handed way
in several counties, but it appears that
| the hand Of the law is about 10 put n
stop a. the trouble Atthe Pitt County
| superior Court this week six negroes
were indicted for this offence. They
went 10 laborers in the field and told
them they were delegated by a mass
meeting TO say If they picked cotton at
less than fifty cents they would wake
mp tie next morning in hell. The men
were frightened and stopped work.
Narccllus Stokes had the three offend
els prosecuted. The jury has convicted
them ALL
Thiny-fye convicts were sent from
the penitentiary last night TO join the
force at work grading the Carthage
railway
Bishop Key, OF the Methodist Epis-
copal Church, South, arrived here to-
day He will preach Sunday.
She Stomach Warehouse Company
was organized here to-day for The sale
OF loaf tobacco. 1t is composed of
some Of the woalthiest men in the city
and hcs a large capital.
The trial of a very interesting case at
GIecnvllle Las been concluded. ). }.
Noblcs instituted suit against ". II.
harrington Tor $4,000. Mobiles was
shot by Harrington last autumn and
the suit was for damages. The verdict
gave Nobles only ;I15.
The residence Of l.. 4. Cherry. Of
Pitt county, was baned last night.
Loss about S2,0J0, with % Insurance.
Some papers have limited that Hon.
Thomas J. Jarvis, Minister to Brazil,
would resign in the next few months
and return to this State. With this
hint was one that he was an aspirant
for the senatoiship now held by Ran
| som. 1t was also more or | IS broadly
mt.matcd that he was the right man as
the candidate for Governor Some OF
| Minister JarVis's most intimate friends
have spoken in the past few days.
What they say leaves little doubt That
| Mr.. JARVIS viii on no account be a can
didatc for Governor, but that Ransom
may regard him as his most formidable
rival. Mr. Jarvis will probably return
| home next summer in time to take part
III the campaign. Ransom has great
strength and is strongly entrenched.
Governor Scales and eX-COngrcssmsn
Waddoll are put down as aspirants also
for the senatOIship, and 1t looks as If
The contest fer the position will be a
QUadIangular one.
The eastern people are deeply IN
tCrcstcd in their fisheries. The cltrh
Of fish is now quite large. The shld
catch last spring was 1900, j)J-an
increase Of some 100000. The catch
of 1856 and that Of the present year
we're the greatest since 1871. The in
crease for 1886 81 was $4,000 over
the catch for 1884 '6j-a gain OF 42),
500 season. it is said that this is due
to the States propagation Of fish. The
State has dropped that work now, but
luckily the Government has picked it
up. both shad and rock-iish Matching
Will be prosecuted with zeal next sea-
son in Albemarlc sound and near We'll
don.
The Baptists have made a purchase
OF well situated property at Asheville
and Will erect another church there.
A curiosity has been discovered, or
rather resmrected, at Hillsboro In the
shape of a printing-press aud wood
type, brought there III 1919 10y Dennis
Ncartt, who, in February, 1922. pub
hsbod the first number OF the Hillsboro'
H,coIdcr. 1t is the Oldest press in the
state, and DUH to be preserved at the
capital.
1t was reported some weeks ago that
cyclone Of local character hld
sweI away the roof OF Davidson Col
lcgc. Il was all error. ladkn College
WAS thc structure injured. \ new roof
is now bong placed on the building,
which is large and lofty one
The Ashevillc people are cXcrci5ing a
most commeuGable caution. Their s1b-
scuptions to railways are t. be SO
guarded that none of tine bonds sub
scnlcd will he turned over 10 the roads
until the latter are completed aud cars
actually running into the town.
AT IA fair near Concord it was for
some wears a custom for "A couple to be
married on the grounds, and on one
occasion Governor Vance gave away
the bride. But Durham proposes TO
have an exhibition Of that kind more
sensational still. The corner stone Of
the courthouse Will be laid soon, and a
marriage Will be performed, the bride
ard groom standing on top OF the
stone. The Durham people may safely
be trusted to inaugurate novelties.
The notorious desperadocs and moon
sinners, Bone Taylor and Wiley Stokes,
who were captured not long ago, were
extensively engaged III tine illicit distill-
mg business. One of their stills, hid
den in Il swamp, WAS captured three
weeks ago. and day before yesterday
mother was seized. There is yet an
oth,r, Which is Thought to be near vii
d bgtCn.
Tie mass-mceting of citizens at VIII
miLpton which discussed the extern
-ion OF the Cape Fear and Yadkin-
valley railway adopted resolutions to
Lc Cifoct that Wilmington shall sub
.cnle $4,000. in cash or city bonds
at per $1,000 upon the completion o.
each five mile section between Fayette-
Vile and Wilmington. Work to begin
four months after Identification of the
subscription.
W. Thomas Waite, a yonng white
msn, who is from Society Hill, $. c.,
forgot the fact that he had wife there,
went to Hlllshoro', n. g., aud married
again. lie is Low in Jail.
DE.CURRYANDG GLADSTONE.